Will Craft

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Milman |Will Craft

Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels have ironically been hampered by the economic chaos unleashed by his own tariffs, but the US is still on track to increase oil and gas extraction, causing a surge in planet-heating emissions, a new analysis shows. The US was already the world’s leading oil and gas power, producing more of the fossil fuels than any country in history during Joe Biden’s administration.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Aliya Uteuova |Will Craft |Andrew Witherspoon

When reading a chart, an outlier is often the first thing you notice. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term has been full of them: immigration arrests spiking. Markets falling. Emission trends reversing. Hundreds of day one pardons to insurrectionists. Record-breaking use of executive powers. Let’s look at some of the outlying trends of the administration’s first 100 days. Tariffs caused markets to fallA line chart showing the S&P 500 decliningGuardian graphic. Source: Yahoo Finance.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Laughland |Will Craft

Composite: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design; Source photos via Getty ImagesThe first few months of 2025 have been tumultuous for Sheriff Bill Rogers, the chief law officer of Columbus county in North Carolina. In February, his department accusing Columbus jail deputies of neglecting the care of a county inmate who was almost beaten to death in 2023.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh |Will Craft

Jorge, a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Venezuela, reported in February to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Portland, Oregon, for what he figured would be a routine check-in. Instead, he was arrested and transferred to a detention center in another state. Alberto, a 42-year-old from Nicaragua who had been granted humanitarian parole, checked in with Ice using an electronic monitoring program that same month. Three days later, he was arrested.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Will Craft |Maanvi Singh

US immigration enforcement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian review of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.